Kanban Essentials

Prerequisites:

None

In this high-energy, interactive and fun one-day class, you’ll be introduced to the essentials of Kanban. Kanban is a method for managing the creation of products with an emphasis on continual delivery while not overburdening the development team. Like Scrum, Kanban promotes continuous collaboration and encourages active, ongoing learning and improving by defining the best possible team workflow. This class is full of practical, real world techniques, which can be implemented immediately at your workplace. Hands-on exercises demonstrate key concepts and let you experience the benefits of Kanban firsthand. You’ll learn to visualize what you do each day, how to limit the amount of work in progress, and how to enhance your workflow.

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Class Learning Objectives

Understand how to describe Kanban, so that you can better appreciate it

Visualize your work, so that you can identify wasteful activities

Apply Work In Process limits to improve quality

Make policies explicit, so that you can establish trust

Implement feedback loops, so that you can improve faster

Manage flow, so that you can improve predictability

Improve collaboratively and evolve experimentally, so that Kanban works for your real world environment

Benefits

Increase quality though increased focus and clear communication of standards

Increase team morale by granting permission to self-improve

Properly align your development efforts around delivering prioritized features first